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The Great Earl's Last Gamble: O'Neill's Flight from Ireland
In this episode, Lucas and Luna pick up after the Flight of the Earls—but instead of retelling the escape itself, they focus on one man's impossible gamble: Hugh O'Neill, the Great Earl, who spent nine years fighting Elizabeth I, then made peace, and then saw his world dissolve into betrayal, exile, and a desperate flight from Lough Swilly. They trace O'Neill's early years as a hostage in the Pale, his rise as a Gaelic lord who played the English game, the brutal Nine Years' War that nearly broke the English army, and the Battle of Kinsale where everything came apart…
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